19 Belarusian companies found in British offshore

The company was founded in Alyaksandr Lukashenka's name in 2002. Moscow resident Irina Arkhipova headed the company in 2009. Blogger Yuras Zyankovich, who first discovered Lukashenka's name on the list, thinks that such re-registration is connected with the sanctions imposed on the Belarusian President by the West. However, it is not excluded that it's the President's namesake on the list.



the database has been published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The full text is available on the website offshoreleaks.icij.org. To the enquiry "Belarus", the database provides 19 entries about companies and 28 Belarusian addresses.

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